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Government Statistics > Time required to start a business > days (most recent) by country

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Rank   Countries  Amount  Date  
# 1     Suriname: 694 days   2006 Time series
# 2     Guinea-Bissau: 233 days   2006 Time series
# 3     Haiti: 203 days   2006 Time series
# 4     Laos: 163 days   2006 Time series
# 5     Congo, Democratic Republic of the: 155 days   2006 Time series
# 6     Brazil: 152 days   2006 Time series
# 7     São Tomé and Príncipe: 144 days   2006 Time series
# 8     Venezuela: 141 days   2006 Time series
# 9     Equatorial Guinea: 136 days   2006 Time series
# 10     Angola: 124 days   2006 Time series
# 11     Mozambique: 113 days   2006 Time series
# 12     Botswana: 108 days   2006 Time series
# 13     Indonesia: 97 days   2006 Time series
# 14     Zimbabwe: 96 days   2006 Time series
# 15     Namibia: 95 days   2006 Time series
# 16     East Timor: 92 days   2006 Time series
# 17     Cambodia: 86 days   2006 Time series
# 18     Mauritania: 82 days   2006 Time series
# 19     Ghana: 81 days   2006 Time series
= 20     Costa Rica: 77 days   2006 Time series
= 20     Iraq: 77 days   2006 Time series
# 22     Eritrea: 76 days   2006 Time series
# 23     Chad: 75 days   2006 Time series
# 24     Paraguay: 74 days   2006 Time series
= 25     Dominican Republic: 73 days   2006 Time series
= 25     Lesotho: 73 days   2006 Time series
# 27     Peru: 72 days   2006 Time series
# 28     Congo, Republic of the: 71 days   2006 Time series
# 29     Belarus: 69 days   2006 Time series
# 30     Tajikistan: 67 days   2006 Time series
# 31     Ecuador: 65 days   2006 Time series
= 32     United Arab Emirates: 63 days   2006 Time series
= 32     Yemen: 63 days   2006 Time series
# 34     Bhutan: 62 days   2006 Time series
# 35     Swaziland: 61 days   2006 Time series
= 36     Slovenia: 60 days   2006 Time series
= 36     Gabon: 60 days   2006 Time series
# 38     Senegal: 58 days   2006 Time series
# 39     Solomon Islands: 57 days   2006 Time series
# 40     Papua New Guinea: 56 days   2006 Time series
= 41     Bosnia and Herzegovina: 54 days   2006 Time series
= 41     Kenya: 54 days   2006 Time series
= 43     Togo: 53 days   2006 Time series
= 43     Azerbaijan: 53 days   2006 Time series
= 45     Cape Verde: 52 days   2006 Time series
= 45     Grenada: 52 days   2006 Time series
# 47     Serbia and Montenegro: 51 days   2004 Time series
= 48     Vietnam: 50 days   2006 Time series
= 48     Sri Lanka: 50 days   2006 Time series
= 48     Bolivia: 50 days   2006 Time series
# 51     Guinea: 49 days   2006 Time series
# 52     Philippines: 48 days   2006 Time series
= 53     Spain: 47 days   2006 Time series
= 53     Saint Kitts and Nevis: 47 days   2006 Time series
= 53     Iran: 47 days   2006 Time series
= 56     Mauritius: 46 days   2006 Time series
= 56     Fiji: 46 days   2006 Time series
= 56     Guyana: 46 days   2006 Time series
= 56     Lebanon: 46 days   2006 Time series
= 60     Belize: 45 days   2006 Time series
= 60     Côte d'Ivoire: 45 days   2006 Time series
= 60     Croatia: 45 days   2006 Time series
= 63     Honduras: 44 days   2006 Time series
= 63     Colombia: 44 days   2006 Time series
= 65     Syria: 43 days   2006 Time series
= 65     Nigeria: 43 days   2006 Time series
= 65     Burundi: 43 days   2006 Time series
= 65     Uruguay: 43 days   2006 Time series
= 65     Trinidad and Tobago: 43 days   2006 Time series
# 70     Mali: 42 days   2006 Time series
# 71     Saint Lucia: 40 days   2006 Time series
= 72     Sudan: 39 days   2006 Time series
= 72     Nicaragua: 39 days   2006 Time series
= 72     Saudi Arabia: 39 days   2006 Time series
= 72     Albania: 39 days   2006 Time series
= 72     Vanuatu: 39 days   2006 Time series
= 77     Seychelles: 38 days   2006 Time series
= 77     Hungary: 38 days   2006 Time series
= 77     Greece: 38 days   2006 Time series
= 80     Cameroon: 37 days   2006 Time series
= 80     Djibouti: 37 days   2006 Time series
= 80     Bangladesh: 37 days   2006 Time series
= 80     Malawi: 37 days   2006 Time series
= 84     Zambia: 35 days   2006 Time series
= 84     China: 35 days   2006 Time series
= 84     Kuwait: 35 days   2006 Time series
= 84     Estonia: 35 days   2006 Time series
= 84     South Africa: 35 days   2006 Time series
= 84     Samoa: 35 days   2006 Time series
= 84     India: 35 days   2006 Time series
= 91     Burkina Faso: 34 days   2006 Time series
= 91     Oman: 34 days   2006 Time series
= 91     Israel: 34 days   2006 Time series
= 94     Thailand: 33 days   2006 Time series
= 94     Ukraine: 33 days   2006 Time series
= 96     Bulgaria: 32 days   2006 Time series
= 96     Argentina: 32 days   2006 Time series
= 96     Tonga: 32 days   2006 Time series
= 99     Poland: 31 days   2006 Time series
= 99     Benin: 31 days   2006 Time series
= 99     Nepal: 31 days   2006 Time series
= 102     Guatemala: 30 days   2006 Time series
= 102     Uganda: 30 days   2006 Time series
= 102     Moldova: 30 days   2006 Time series
= 102     Malaysia: 30 days   2006 Time series
= 102     Tanzania: 30 days   2006 Time series
= 107     Austria: 29 days   2006 Time series
= 107     Uzbekistan: 29 days   2006 Time series
= 109     Russia: 28 days   2006 Time series
= 109     Palau: 28 days   2006 Time series
= 111     Belgium: 27 days   2006 Time series
= 111     Gambia, The: 27 days   2006 Time series
= 111     Mexico: 27 days   2006 Time series
= 111     Chile: 27 days   2006 Time series
= 115     Sierra Leone: 26 days   2006 Time series
= 115     Lithuania: 26 days   2006 Time series
= 115     El Salvador: 26 days   2006 Time series
# 118     Slovakia: 25 days   2006 Time series
= 119     Czech Republic: 24 days   2006 Time series
= 119     Pakistan: 24 days   2006 Time series
= 119     Germany: 24 days   2006 Time series
= 119     Algeria: 24 days   2006 Time series
= 119     Armenia: 24 days   2006 Time series
= 119     Niger: 24 days   2006 Time series
= 125     Japan: 23 days   2006 Time series
= 125     Comoros: 23 days   2006 Time series
# 127     Korea, South: 22 days   2006 Time series
= 128     Madagascar: 21 days   2006 Time series
= 128     Kiribati: 21 days   2006 Time series
= 128     Kyrgyzstan: 21 days   2006 Time series
= 128     Antigua and Barbuda: 21 days   2006 Time series
= 132     Kazakhstan: 20 days   2006 Time series
= 132     Switzerland: 20 days   2006 Time series
= 132     Mongolia: 20 days   2006 Time series
= 135     Dominica: 19 days   2006 Time series
= 135     Panama: 19 days   2006 Time series
= 135     Egypt: 19 days   2006 Time series
= 135     Ireland: 19 days   2006 Time series
= 139     Macedonia, Republic of: 18 days   2006 Time series
= 139     Jordan: 18 days   2006 Time series
= 139     United Kingdom: 18 days   2006 Time series
# 142     Marshall Islands: 17 days   2006 Time series
= 143     Micronesia, Federated States of: 16 days   2006 Time series
= 143     Latvia: 16 days   2006 Time series
= 143     Sweden: 16 days   2006 Time series
= 143     Georgia: 16 days   2006 Time series
= 143     Rwanda: 16 days   2006 Time series
= 143     Ethiopia: 16 days   2006 Time series
= 149     Finland: 14 days   2006 Time series
= 149     Central African Republic: 14 days   2006 Time series
= 151     Norway: 13 days   2006 Time series
= 151     Italy: 13 days   2006 Time series
= 151     Maldives: 13 days   2006 Time series
= 154     New Zealand: 12 days   2006 Time series
= 154     Morocco: 12 days   2006 Time series
= 154     Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 12 days   2006 Time series
= 157     Romania: 11 days   2006 Time series
= 157     Hong Kong: 11 days   2006 Time series
= 157     Tunisia: 11 days   2006 Time series
# 160     Netherlands: 10 days   2006 Time series
# 161     Turkey: 9 days   2006 Time series
= 162     Afghanistan: 8 days   2006 Time series
= 162     Portugal: 8 days   2006 Time series
= 162     France: 8 days   2006 Time series
= 162     Jamaica: 8 days   2006 Time series
# 166     Puerto Rico: 7 days   2006 Time series
# 167     Singapore: 6 days   2006 Time series
= 168     Iceland: 5 days   2006 Time series
= 168     United States: 5 days   2006 Time series
= 168     Denmark: 5 days   2006 Time series
# 171     Canada: 3 days   2006 Time series
# 172     Australia: 2 days   2006 Time series
Weighted average: 47.8 days  


DEFINITION: Time required to start a business is the number of calendar days needed to complete the procedures to legally operate a business. If a procedure can be speeded up at additional cost, the fastest procedure, independent of cost, is chosen.

SOURCE: World Development Indicators database

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COMMENTARY     

Roger Conklin
8th November 2010 		These statistics are important but if your are a US citizen contemplating opening a business in a foreign country you will find that the most significant barrier is not the number of days it takes to fulfill the requirements for doing so in that country, but the barriers erected by the US tax legislation. Under the controlled foreign corporation provisions of the US tax code you must, in addition to complying with foreign law to establish and maintain your acounting records in local currency, you must also establish a parallel accounting system in US dollars by converting local currency values to dollars and constantly correcting this conversion as exchange rates vary. And also you must not only pay income taxes to the foreign country you must also pay income tax in US dollars to the IRS. Almost always the tax laws in foreign countries are so vastly different from US law that, with the currently depreciating value of the US dollar, you will discover, for example, that although the local currency books might show a loss, the US dollar books may well show a profit on which you are subject to US tax.

For the individual US entrepreneur who is contemplating moving abroad, for example, for the purpose of setting up a company to sell US exports in that country, you will discover that th massive additional accounting cost plus the double taxation imposed by the US in reality makes it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for the US citizen to establish and operate a business abroad. No other country in the world imposes this double taxation on its citizens who leave their home country to go abroad to sell home-country exports. This is the prime reason why the US is the only developed industrialized nation in the world with a massive foreign trade deficit. This barrier, erected by our own Congress, is much more of a barrier to US exports than those erected by foreign countries. If there was ever a wall that needs to be torn down to create American jobs manufacturing for export, this is it.
Diego Remus
3rd June 2010 		For almost one year, there is a new law here in Brazil that allows you to instantly (I mean, with a click) start your own business in the "Individual Entrepreneur" category. It's a very simplified solution to formalize millions of people who do some economic activity but don't have Labor Law or conditions to open a small or micro business.

http://www.portaldoempreendedor.gov.br

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